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The theory tag may be redundant
theory has 15 questions. Some are low quality but out of scope. Its also a classic meta-tag, and considering our close reasons contain a mention of practical problems, I propose we nuke this
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Kill the [software-tools] tag
The tag software-tools seems like a perfect meta-tag.
It could never be the only tag of a question.
What are "software tools", even?
People often abuse it for software-recs. Also, a common mistake ...
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Unsynonomize [synaptic] and [synaptics]
Synaptics is a company that makes human interface devices like touchpads. Synaptic is a Linux package manager that works with Apt. At some point in the past, these two tags were incorrectly ...
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Ambiguous Tag: "atom"
Current status:
The tag atom in its current form is used for both:
The Intel Atom CPU architecture
The Atom standard for XML-based web feeds
Resolution:
There already is an intel-atom tag. I've ...
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Replace the `Surface` tag?
Users having a Microsoft Surface Computer/Tablet are using the microsoft-surface tag. But I also find some questions having just surface, which does not have a lot to do with the Microsoft Surface ...
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Top Questions of the Week #23
Now we're into week 23 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Archive the outlook-archive
We have 23 questions tagged outlook-archive and 113 questions tagged pst.
Both are about .pst files used by Outlook.
We do not have any special -archive tags for other programs. E.g. no thunderbird-...
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Pew Pew the Laser Tag
While working my way through the manufacturer tag clean up list I came across the tag laser.
It has no description and the questions listed all appear to refer to laser-printer. Am I ok to remove ...
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Is there a way to block the recreation of the [bug] tag on the main site?
I've been editing out the bug tag from threads on the main site because I've noticed that there were just a few questions tagged with it and that it doesn't improve the post in any way that can't be ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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Should [charts] and [graphs] tags be merged?
charts - 205 questions tagged / 77% answered.
graphs - 148 questions tagged / 79% answered.
Both charts & graphs - 27 tagged with both / 74% answered
I think the real difference between charts ...
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Merge [laptop-battery] into [battery]
battery x 373
laptop-battery x 69
I think that instead of having 2 separate tags, questions about laptop batteries should be tagged with laptopbattery instead of having a special laptop-battery tag....
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Tag merging suggestion: [joystick] [joypad] [gamepad]
I propose to merge joystick joypad and gamepad (with a total of 25 questions) into game-controller; as we do not get many questions targeting one specific type of game controller, instead, having one ...
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Replacement needs a replacement
replacement
Questions range from file replacement to find and replace text to hardware replacement
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Tag cleanup: Delete the [bug-report] tag
The bug-report tag doesn't specify any cohesive topic. Instead, there are questions under this tag about:
how to report bugs to developers;
issues caused by specific bugs, whether identified by the ...
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Time to change [pop] flavor(s)
I see 12 questions using this tag.
25% of the questions are related to pop-ups.
75% are related to the Post Office Protocol.
So (at the time I'm making this question) we really have two separate ...
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Duplicate questions for merging/deleting
I have been working on completing a thorough examination of the query from Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate, and found many posts were duplicates from single users, that ...
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Synonomize Red Hat tags
redhat is among the remaining manufacturer meta tags. Roughly 500 of the questions have been cleaned up; the ones needing general tag remediation. About 136 questions remain. All of these refer to ...
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kvm tag ambiguity
The kvm tag is used for both Keyboard-Video-Mouse switch and for Linux Kernel-Virtual-Machine infrastructure.
There are tags kvm-switch and linux-kvm
Is it worthwhile changing all 'kvm' tags to one ...
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Can we [design] a better tag?
design: "Questions relating to software used for graphic design, web design, computer-aided design, et cetera." It appears to have been intended as a catch-all tag for software that didn't have a ...
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User SS64 updating URLs, but old URLs still work
A user named SS64 is editing several links to the (really good resource) site ss64.com on various posts, changing the path from https://ss64.com/osx/... to https://ss64.com/mac/...
The old ../osx/... ...
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Top Questions of the Week #1
We are planning on featuring every week the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own ...
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Burninate or clean up the tags [freeware] and [shareware]
Could we burninate or clean up the tags freeware and shareware?
They are meta tags without explanation about the topic, usually used for off topic searches for software or licence issues.
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SuperUser tags: [nas] vs [network-attached-storage]
I've asked a couple questions on SuperUser that I originally tagged with [nas]. There were a few other questions out there with that tag already. After awhile, one of my questions got the [network-...
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Difference between CD tags
There are currently 239 questions tagged with cd and no distinction between Compact Disc and Change Directory. Additionally, there is no [chdir] tag. My thoughts are that there should be a chdir tag ...
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We're not a bank, get rid of [audit] (or replace it with less ambiguous tags)
audit isn't useful as it refers to a whole bunch of different topics, including license auditing, security auditing, and software auditing.
Can we get rid of it, or perhaps retag questions with less ...
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Can `ui` tag be merged with `user-interface`?
There are two tags which have the same meaning:
ui (15 questions),
user-interface (89 questions).
I imagine that ui may be removed, and the 15 questions retagged with user-interface.
What do you ...
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Super User Question of the Week #30
Now we're into week 30 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Top Questions of the Week #9
Now we're into post 9 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and ...
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Let's expel [native]
native is undefined and has 12 questions, pretty much each about something different. Does anyone object to nuking this tag?
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Please burninate the [problem] tag
We've had it before and way before that, and also on SO, but the "problem" (which is problem) seems to be reappearing.
Can we please get rid of this meta-tag again?
By the way: There are a few ...
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Retagging [firefox] [mozilla] questions?
Almost all of the questions tagged with mozilla are questions about Firefox or Thunderbird, for example:
Is there a Firefox extension to bookmark a specific position on a webpage?
How to override the ...
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SU retag request: [wireless-network] --> [wireless-networking]
Retag wireless-network(28) to wireless-networking(349).
Also, there is also the more general wireless(222), but this one may not be an exact match on all questions.
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Merge [external-display] and [external-monitor]
There's
external-display, 121 questions
external-monitor, 13 questions
As the two are obviously synonyms, and the first one is much more widely used, I suggest to:
Merge external-display and ...
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Help clean up the Mac Office tags
Office for Mac uses versions like 2008 and 2011, which makes it different from Office for Windows (2003, 2007, 2010).
The word tag wiki suggests that for Mac there should be:
word-2004
word-2008
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Merge [screen] [display] [monitor] and [resolution] [screen-resolution]
I really think we should merge 2 tags out of these 3:
screen x 544
display x 564
monitor x 1032
because they're too similar. There are even 11 questions tagged with all of them.
I also think we can ...
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Please reopen this question about ripping DVDs
Ripping TV episodes from DVDs – how can I know which stream belongs to which episode?
I feel this question should be reopened. I can imagine it was closed in reaction to a flag by the first commenter, ...
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Who broke chat?
Did someone unplug the chat server to plug the vacuum cleaner in to get the ants out of the keyboard?
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Cleanup up [organization] tag [duplicate]
Most of the 98 questions with the undefined organization tag refer to providing structure, and that is probably the appropriate usage. There are some exceptions that should be retagged. A number ...
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Lotus tag cleanup
While looking through some questions on lotus-notes, I found that some of them were also tagged with lotus, which has 34 questions. Looking through the lotus, many of them are just about Notes, one ...
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Tag synonym request: [mac-os] to [osx]
The mac-os tag has four questions, all relating to OS X (one is even tagged with both).
Following the lead of Apple.SE, I suggest that the tag (and its synonym macos) be merged into osx.
An ...
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Retag + synonym [systray] => [notification-area]
Could we have systray (4 Qs) made a synonym of notification-area (19 Qs)?
At least according to Raymond Chen, the correct name is "(Taskbar) Notification Area", so the systray tag is ...
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SU Retag Request: [tools] <--> [utilities]
tools and utilities are the same thing, right? I think they should be merged under tools.
What do you think?
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Glitch tag cleanup now completed
Similar to yesterday's question: Looking at the planned tag cleanup requests, the tag glitch has now been cleared. No questions remain.
So, can the question: Remove the [Glitch] tag now be set to ...
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Options tag cleanup now completed
Looking at the planned tag cleanup requests, there is one, options, that now has no tagged questions.
So, shouldn't the question: Too many [options] to choose from now be set to status-completed?
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Sonicwall: Is it a manufacturer tag?
As part of the ongoing manufacturer tag clean up I came across this question:
L2PT VPN ports are not opening
Which is tagged with sonicwall, I was wondering if this is considered a manufacturer or ...
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Possible Tag Merge: [toshiba-satellite] into [toshiba-laptop]
As part of the Manufacturer & Company tags cleanup, I'm removing toshiba and replacing it with a more topic/product-centric toshiba-laptop (for laptop-related questions anyway).
However I've just ...
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tag cleanup: [editor]
I was looking for an example for my question on tag definitions and came across editor, which isn't the best example because it obviously needs tag cleanup. So this is a tag cleanup request. In ...
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Can [problem] be obliterated or merged to [troubleshooting]?
Most of the questions are using problem as a meta tag, can that tag perhaps be obliterated?
Update: I looked through all tags, re-tagged only one to troubleshooting because it was necessary...
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Super User question of the week #30 was just deleted?
I wonder why Super User Question of the Week #30 (not sure if it made to the blog), being How to find and remove "spicy" media files from my PC, was just deleted?
I think it was quite a nice question:...
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